couple questions

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

First, I've been really liking the name June lately for a little girl. The only problem is (and I didn't even realize it at first), I'm due in June. Would that make it tacky? I'll probably use it for a middle name, if anything.

Also, I finally questioned the boyfriend about names. I could only get one out of him. He says if it's a boy he would like his name to be James, after his father. Now I quite like this name, as a dear friend of mine who passed a few years ago also had this name, but there is one little catch. James is his son's middle name (also, his middle name, his son is a junior). Do you think that's weird? Does that make the name unusuable? To him, it's not a big deal. And it's not a huge deal to me, but I don't want my child to think that we borrowed his name from his brother, ya know? So what do you think?

Comments

[bandnerd88.livejournal.com]

I don't find it to be a huge deal. My half-brother (my dad's son) is Allan Joseph, Joseph being after my grandfather. My sister would have been Joseph (probably Joseph Evan, but that's neither here nor there) had she been a boy. (She still has Jo in her name - he name is Mary-Jo.) Considering that it's a family name, and a few different people have it, I don't think it's really all that out there to use it.

As far as June goes, I don't think it's tacky regardless of when you're due, especially as a middle name. A friend of mine was actually due in June and planned on using June as a mn (partially because of the due date and partially because it was her sister's mn). She ended up overshooting her due date and giving birth in July, but she still used June as a mn.

[x-gussa.livejournal.com]

I knew a Stephan Michael & his brother's name was Michael Stephan. I don't see anything wrong with it at all.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

As long as you don't name him the exact opposite of his half-brother's (ie, if he is Patrick James, don't name him James Patrick), then I think you're fine. Whatever, blended families sometimes have repeated names.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything wrong with using James. My aunt named her first son Michael Vincent, Michael after his dad (they didn't want him to be a jr) and Vincent after her dad. Due to some pretty insane tragedies one right after the other, her father and my uncle's father died shortly before their second son was born so his name is Vincent Paul after both grandfathers. Especially if your boyfriend specifically requested it, I don't think it's a big deal.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i love the name june and think being born in june would actually kind of make it extra sweet. i like the idea.

i dont think theres anything wrong with the james thing, especially if neither you nor your boyfriend mind it. plus its not like its just a name you picked out of nowhere. you are honoring two very important people in your lives.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I honestly believe that month, day, season names are not tacky...unless the kid is born in that month, season or on that day. So yeah, having a kid with either name being June when she's born in June would, I think, be the tackiest thing of all.

I also really hate the idea of siblings sharing names, unless it's like, the mother's maiden name or something as a middle. It's like, there are so many names in the world.

[geogirl.livejournal.com]

June is cute. I don't think it would matter that the baby is born in June.

There is a wildly popular Disney preschool show with June as a character, so some kids might relate her to that, but that's not a bad thing :).

I think James would be fine. You have your own reasons for using it. I like James too.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

LITTLE EINSTEINS

[amphitirte.livejournal.com]

You could always name her Juniper and call her June :)

I don't really see the James thing as a big deal, it's a family name after all :)

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's at all unusable. It's a family name!

Oh and my brother's names are Jeffery Cameron and Cameron Gary....because Cameron is a family name. I've never thought it was weird.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Normally, I would say yes, totally and completely tacky if a baby was named after the month s/he was born in. But I like June so much as a name that I think it's great no matter what time of year. ;)

I love James. (As long as it is strictly James and not Jim or Jimmy or Jamie or Jimbo!) I don't think it is weird to use a family name twice, as long as his son doesn't hate the idea. James is a lovely name.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I love June and think it's very appropriate for a June baby.

Two James is weird to me, but I see I am in the minority here.

[laura-anne.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's that weird- both my male cousins have the mn Francis, which is my brother's first name, after our grandfather. I'm guessing the kid will grow up knowing that he's named in honour of his grandfather, and won't think it was borrowed from his brother.

Also, James is a great name!
On the June issues, it's not really my style but I don't think it would be tacky.